Lengthy jail term for foreign fighter aid

A Sydney man who helped seven young men fight for Islamic extremists in Syria is facing at least 10 years' jail after his conviction for assisting the wannabe-jihadists.

Hamdi Alqudsi, 41, was on Tuesday found guilty of seven counts of providing services between June and October 2013 for people with the intention they would engage in hostile activity in the war-prone country.

The disability pensioner's NSW Supreme Court trial heard Alqudsi facilitated flights and itineraries and advised the men how to exchange money without drawing attention to themselves.

Two of his alleged "boys" are believed to have died while fighting on the frontlines of the war in Syria.

The prosecution relied on a large cache of intercepted phone calls in Arabic and English, including some with Mohammad Ali Baryalei, who would later become known as Australia's highest-ranking IS member.

The pair talked about having "brothers" picked up from a Turkish airport, border crossings and a battle in which Baryalei cried after seeing a man killed.

Alqudsi's defence barrister Scott Corish had suggested his client could have thought the men were going to Syria for humanitarian reasons.